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With abortion rights under attack in many states, here's a roundup of some of the biggest developments By Emma Batha LONDON, Sept 15 Thomson Reuters Foundation - Women in the United States are facing an "all-out assault" on abortion rights with a record number of restrictions passed this year, reproductive health research organization the Guttmacher Institute has said.
Here is a snapshot of what is happening in some U. The law would include exemptions for cases of rape, incest, or serious health impacts. Abortion rights hotspots in as Argentina grants approval Biden to end Trump-era anti-abortion "global gag rule" Reporting by Emma Batha. Wade in But these legislative efforts are distinct from those of previous years in two ways.
First is the difference in sheer quantity: In , the United States has already seen the highest number of abortion restrictions enacted in a single year , according to the Guttmacher Institute. In May , the Supreme Court announced that it would hear Dobbs v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey , which guarantee the right to abortion and prohibit states from barring it before the point of viability. This issue brief breaks down the abortion bans and restrictions that state legislatures have passed this year, such as the most recent law in Texas, as well as highlights states that have protected and expanded abortion rights.
Abortion is essential health care, critical to health equity, reproductive autonomy, and racial, gender, and economic justice; it also helps ensure that people can control their own bodies, lives, and futures. The restrictions that some states are enacting disproportionately harm Black, Indigenous, and Latino individuals; people with low incomes; LGBTQ people; young people; people with disabilities; immigrants; and people in rural areas, for whom legal and systemic barriers frequently already put abortion care out of reach.
This onslaught of restrictive state laws and the upcoming arguments in Dobbs v. While some states are attempting to restrict bodily autonomy and eliminate abortion rights entirely, others are working to protect and expand them. These efforts are particularly important because they take steps toward safeguarding abortion access in the states that enact them, even if the Supreme Court does gut long-standing abortion-rights precedent with Dobbs v.
For example, New Mexico repealed a criminal abortion statute this year that had been on the books since , paving the way for abortion access in the state. At the federal level, the Biden administration has fortunately taken some important steps to undo the harms of the Trump administration and protect access to reproductive health care, including by pausing the U.
More recently, the U. Amid the COVID pandemic, which presented the greatest public health threat in generations and exposed long-present systemic inequities in the U.
The Guttmacher Institute, which tracks state-level abortion legislation, has marked as the most devastating state legislative session for abortion rights in history. Wade to 1, Number of those introduced abortion-restrictive statutes enacted into law as of August These newly enacted restrictions compound the harms of abortion-restrictive laws that preceded them.
Of the 97 new measures, more than 80 were signed into law in states that already have onerous abortion restrictions, making abortion even harder to access. Mississippi, for example, whose week ban is at the center of Dobbs v. The abortion restrictions and bans that have passed in states this year come in a range of forms, all of which have the ultimate goal of ending access to legal abortion care in the United States.
They include both established tactics and some new and incredibly extreme provisions designed to make abortion care inaccessible, including the following:. This bounty hunter scheme was designed to thwart judicial intervention to protect abortion access before the law could take effect, and it has succeeded in that objective.
Although a federal district court scheduled a hearing to consider whether the law should be enjoined, the Fifth Circuit intervened before the hearing took place and concluded that the law could go into effect.
Certain state legislatures have stood out this year as particularly hostile to abortion care.
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